Tidbit from this locked article talks about Fogo adding more restaurant space:

Fogo continued to expand over the fall and winter and opened another dining area with 120 additional seats this month. The new private dining space is to the left of the bar. Fogo can now accommodate events with up to 450 people with the space.

Sushi Train is filling in the old French Corner Bakery at 1200 Nicollet. It's a buffet style sushi restaurant that has it's sushi on a conveyer belt and runs to all the tables. A major destination! With 1 catch.

They were going to be open 11am-12am on weekdays. And 11am-2am on weekends. After 5 neighbors. YES FIVE. They changed their hours from 11am-11pm on weekdays and 11am-12am on weekends. Sad to see people opposed to later night vibrancy on Nicollet.

Sushi Train is filling in the old French Corner Bakery at 1200 Nicollet. It's a buffet style sushi restaurant that has it's sushi on a conveyer belt and runs to all the tables. A major destination! With 1 catch.

They were going to be open 11am-12am on weekdays. And 11am-2am on weekends. After 5 neighbors. YES FIVE. They changed their hours from 11am-11pm on weekdays and 11am-12am on weekends. Sad to see people opposed to later night vibrancy on Nicollet.

YES!!! I got sushi last weekend and was wishing we had a place like this. Day made!

I wonder how that works. At the building I'm in, the commercial spaces are a separate entity with their own association board that's fully responsible for their common areas. Probably works better with a couple dozen commercial units than like three or whatever 1200 on the Mall has.

Hopefully the midnight close time is just a friendly agreement, not contractual, and they can quietly expand their hours without fuss in six months or so.

Yes. At 1200 On The Mall, the commercial space works just like any other unit in that they pay the same HOA dues as other residents/owners (bases on square footage). I heard that the residents stated they want a restaurant with simular hours as Buca, which is also in a condo building.

The office area of Smith Bros Garage of all places has been under construction for the last few months. Finally yesterday I could tell that a KITCHEN is going in there. This is the website on the building: http://beta.clustertruck.com/

Theoretically, you could tear down the garage and given it occupies the middle of the block connect to both empty corners of the block and keep the Drake. If someone wanted to they could match the architectural style of the Drake to retain the block's current character.